Brush



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MELBURN TUPPER, or ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,662, dated May 26,1896.

Application filed April 7, 1893. Serial No. 46 9,450. (Moc'leL) To allwhom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, MELBURN H. TUPPER, a citizen of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBrushes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to brushes; and it consists in certainimprovements in the construction thereof, as will be fully described,and pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is to provide a brush the bristles of whichmay be folded so as to be conveniently carried, while travel ing, in thepocket or otherwise.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as follows:

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the brush, on the line 1 1 in Fig. 3,with the bristles in a tilted position. Fig. 2 is the same section withthe bristles locked in position for use. Fig. 3 is a plan view of thebrush. Fig. 4 is a vertical section, slightly enlarged, on the line 4 4in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of a tuft of bristles, with itsfastenings, on the line 5 5 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an enlarged view of atuft of bristles as seen in Fig. 4. Fig. '7 is an enlarged perspectiveview of the frame, showing the method of fastening the pivot-pins. Fig.8 is an enlarged view of a bristle-base, showing the method of fastening bristles therein.

A marks the frame of the brush. It is preferably made of sheet metalwith the hollow shoulders at a bent into its edges on the brush side ofthe frame and continued back past the frame, formin g the hollowshoulders to a. at the back. One of the shoulders a has a series ofperforations a through its inner thickness, and the other should er alike series of slots (0 extending through the bend at the top of theshoulder. (See Fig. 7.) A series of bristle-bases B are pivoted betweenthese shoulders on pins 1'), which are passed into the perforations aand dropped into the slots (L The wire pin E is passed through theshoulder above the pins 5, so as to hold them in place and to preventthem from falling out of the slots a The bristle-bases are of such widthand so placed that each preceding bristle-base passes under the edge ofeach succeeding base and has its pivotal movement limited thereby. Thebristles O are attached to the bases in any desirable manner, butpreferably as hereinafter described. A looking-pin D is passed betweenthe frame and the bases to lock them, so as to hold the bristles in anupright position for use, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. By Withdrawingthis pin the bristles may be folded down to the position shown inFig. 1. When not in use, the pin D is placed in one of the hollowshoulders a, as shown in dotted line at D in Fig. 4:.

The bristle-bases are preferably made of sheet metal bent around thepivot-pins and, as before stated, having their ends extend under thenext succeeding base. They have perforations through their upperthicknesses, through which the bristles are passed. The bristles areassembled in tufts O and looped around the pins 1), so as to hold themfirmly in place. Eyelets c are fitted into the perforations in the baseand extended for some distance along the tufts, so as to stiffen them. Aloop F of wire, haviu g its ends telescopically placed in the shouldersa a, forms a handle for the brush. It is drawn out for use, as shown inFig. 3, and pushed in, as shown in Figs. 1 and l, when not in use.

A mirror G is placed between the shoulders a a, and is held in place bythe shoulders and the end clips g g, which are folded over the ends ofthe glass.

\Vhat I claim as new is- 1. In a brush, the combination of a frame,shoulders, a a, at the sides thereof having a series of perforations, ain one of them and slots, of, in the other, pivot-pins set in saidperforations and slots, pin, E, forlocking said pivot-pins in the slots,a, bristle-bases pivoted on said pivot-pin and bristles in said bases.

2. In a brush, the combination of a frame, pivot-pins attached thereto,bristle-bases pivoted on said pins and having perforations therein, andbristles looped around said pins In testimony whereof I affix mysignature and threaded through said perforations. in presence of twowitnesses.

3. In a brush, the combination of a frame, bristle-bases pivotallyattached thereto, eye- MELBURN H. TUPPER. 5 lets set in said bases andextending outwardly \Vitnesses:

therefrom, and bristles threaded through said H. A. STRONG,

eyelets for the purposes set forth. V. MARKS, Jr.

